Fool’s Paradise Day Day 195 of 2008 171 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Manu: Bird
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Gris: Ointment
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “So the ants will cry for you.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.” (P.J.O’Rourke)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Honey Bee Mystery
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Apple Phone Show
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Give Rice to the Hungry

1863: Civil War military draft rioting begins in New York City (1,000 people are killed including blacks hanged by mobs)
1865: Horace Greeley advises his readers to “Go west young man” (he meant Michigan)
1917: The vision of the Virgin Mary appears to children of Fatima Portugal
1919: The first lighter-than-air transatlantic flight is completed
1985: “Live Aid”, a 17-hour rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow & Sydney, broadcasts to 152 countries and raises $70 million for the starving people of Africa
22005: Former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
2006: Israel imposes a naval blockade against Lebanon and blasted the Beirut airport and army air bases; Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel.
2007: Former media mogul Conrad Black is convicted in Chicago of swindling the far-flung Hollinger International newspaper empire he once ran out of millions of dollars. (Black is serving a 6-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida.)X